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people killed hundreds injured in egypt as the army intervenes to break up fierce riots and port saïd clashes happened after football violence defendants were moved between prisons. we take a look at the deadly consequences of the u.k. government's tactic of stripping passports from citizens it suspects of terrorism but lacks the evidence to prove. war nukes and a growing rift with the administration dominated a meeting of america's most powerful israeli lobby protestors outside to make clear there are other problems at hand. and bavaria joins the chorus of the european regions intensifying their claims for independence saying that it is done with bailing the capital out of financial misery.
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to have you with us this evening it's two pm here in the russian capital i'm lucy counterfeit of and you're watching our t.v. well onto our top story now four people including two police officers have reportedly been killed in the egyptian city of port the army had intervened to break up the clashes there leaving over three hundred people injured violence erupted over a decision to move those detained over last year's football rioting to prisons located outside the city and this of course came during the u.s. secretary of state's visit for talks with president morsi which are outraged the opposition party's bill true has the latest from cairo. this started so off to thirty nine defendants in this post are you trying to about this ed muskie that happens in february off the court this post are you based focal much these defendants are being moved to siamese are very angry about them being moved they gathered at the security directorate building and broke out between the police
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force this protest this of course you will see how violent in months were the naldo city here in egypt this is after a young man was killed he was run over by a police vehicle the minister of interior saying it is a mistake to his father how to maintain two is one of the twice rights groups are putting the dispute on spittle in the. political group a popular current headquarters was also attacked by police with tear gas what we're really getting is chaotic and quite violent reports across the country including here in the competition as countries have it broken out on the cornice between us becoming pro justice and security forces were posted this is all the function of the u.s. secretary of state visit to egypt which was very unpopular here in egypt he spoke with the president and said he would america with that pledge four hundred fifty million dollars to the country however this is done little to appease the people i see roy had his meeting yesterday protesters gathered in front of the foreign
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ministry and burned pictures of john kerry saying that he was here to support the mission brotherhood and push an american interests. well having your british passport revoked for some it could mean a death sentence recent figures suggest the number of people having their passports torn up on national security grounds has soared as of late on the black pet list are people london suspects are to link to terrorism but doesn't quite have the evidence to prosecute some of the former british nationals have allegedly been detained tortured or even killed abroad so let's take a closer look at the numbers now british born mohammed thakur had his citizenship revoked almost three years ago he had just turned twenty seven years old when he was killed by a u.s. drone strike in somalia meanwhile his close friend below all berge ali who came to the u.k. as a baby and grew up there was killed under the same circumstances in somalia this within hours of calling his wife in london to congratulate her on the birth of their first son that same year
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a sudanese british man took his four british children on holiday to sudan four days after leaving he was stripped of his passport and his children were prevented from growing up in the u.k. in another case a british one family including three children were all stuck in pakistan after losing their citizenship while there two years ago let's go now to london where r t is andrew farber had spoken to the person behind this investigation. well the full extent of chilling government program to rid the country of suspect terrorists has been revealed we now know that over the last three years sixteen people have had been stripped of their british passports and the grounds of national security critics claim that these suspects have little chance of appeal with human rights lawyers actually describing the whole process as mediæval and sinister well to talk more about this is chris woods from the bureau investigative journalism which actually broke this story chris with a new report it says or people are claiming that this completely ignores people's
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human rights and also the basic principle of innocent until proven guilty what is the evidence to support this all of these sixteen individuals of have citizenship revoked their passports canceled on the personal side so the home secretary to the courts have had no citation in this process we don't know the evidence that's been laid against these men. and even if they are able to get an appeal which is very very difficult that appeal will mostly be heard in secret and again those affected and their lawyers may never know the true extent of the evidence against them so it's a very secretive process in which the rule of law really does seem to be absent in some places and that's been commented on by judges sitting and looking at this process some of whom raised the point that the government has waited until people got on family holidays for example before stepping in and removing my citizenship effectively locking the door behind people and not only locking those affected out of the country but their families as well the children who are british british born
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unable to come back into the country without separating the families and so on so this can have very serious implications far beyond the individual suspect as we know to the suspects that are actually being killed by us strange strikes is that a coincidence there's no proof yet of any direct connection between those events but certainly people are asking questions it is clear that those people died after the certain shit was removed as part of an active targeting by the united. states and again neither of those individuals were ever charged with any offense in the u.k. we know they were accused of serious terrorist offenses but there were no charges have been laid against the government's response so far has been to say that citizenship here in the united kingdom ease is a privilege and also wrong to sticking by their guns though saying that these are all cases where the government has acted because of their concerns about the threats that these individuals represent to the united kingdom so in the home offices of you they've done the right thing and they're sticking by their actions ok chris thank you we will have to leave it there it is worth pointing out that the
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government has had these powers since two thousand and two well that would is this current government is really ramped up its use and over the last three years the number of cases has increased from six to twenty one and of course as we've heard the government only has to publicly justify what it's doing on the grounds it is in the interests of national security artie's and are far more reporting there while there are more examples of a british american connection last year when former london based care worker bhakti ha she had lost his citizenship and was allegedly pressured by british secret services into working as an informant now after rejecting the m i five option he was reportedly secretly handed over to the united states where he is now facing terrorism charges well our t. has caught up with this father who says that his son is simply being unfairly prosecuted. it was unexpected and shock to the horror from really who are all pretty sure who are levy here all of us navy as a british city but it was all of a shock to us we had to wonder how it could be like that for someone just to be is
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this is just to be provoked like that the british edition has been removed from what he was out of the car that he was away and it was even hard for us to contact him to operate against the kids all i can see is that he's a muslim and believes and he's a practicing muslim but being apart from muslims is not being and it's let me just . say oh that's why that's always been victimized. time for a look at what we have cooking for you on our website of taking to the cloudless sky. a vast array of planes both old and new go on display at the international air show in melbourne australia because they're a web page with a spectacular photo of them video also for you tragedy strikes in eastern siberia as an avalanche hits a group of teenagers one hundred freedom so before alerting emergency services but five are still missing we get all the details on that story and a lot more at our team thought.
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explicit warnings of military action against iran are coming in hot and heavy at the american israel public affairs committee conference in washington now israel's most ardent supporters are pushing for greater u.s. backing the meeting is drawing fire itself with protesters so you have somewhat colorful demonstration outside among their concerns as the oppressive settlement expansion occupied palestinian land and what they say is war mongering by netanyahu going to. the apec conference. is pushing for a congressional resolution that you say should israel decide to strike you want the u.s. we do all that support including military. must remain
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a. real state. and we expect. this kind of a congressional green light for preemptive strike although non-binding is seen by some as a way to put pressure on the obama administration which so far has been reluctant to see the u.s. . dragged into another war in the middle east but the moonless will never abandon their nuclear efforts unless they genuinely believe that america is serious about keeping all options on the table. many of the conference said they thought the ministration was soft on iran but that's a view that was expressed on the sidelines not from the podium the potential of it is really nuclear defense is the only thing that's keeping the country alive not relying on america because obama has not been forthcoming in defending them against iran in fact he's been stalling them apac is also pushing for legislation that
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would designate israel as a major strategic ally of the united states the question many ask is why does the country that's perceived as being closest to america suddenly need the congressional see the full approval now according to an n.b.c. wall street journal poll that came out just a few days ago fifty five percent of americans now no longer want any sort of preference between either side of the israeli palestinian conflict the lobby maybe this is a chance particularly in the face of sequestration where there could be cut just across the board almost two hundred million dollars they could view this as a last chance to tie in support. site here just to the subject of conflict with the palestinians as we see considerably less attention at the summit day in iran but the general impression here is that what's widely regarded as the most influential lobby in the american politics is detected
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a potential threat not just from israel's neighbors but from inside washington itself. in the wake of two wars in a battered economy we see signs of an increasing decided to disengage from world events and focus inward this growing yearning to untangle from what is perceived as too complicated a world effects both parties conservatives and liberals alike they just want out. for israel even the tendency toward isolationism is extremely dangerous refusing to speak on camera some of the delegates expressed frustration over the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel as defense secretary chuck hagel is known to have been critical of the pro israel lobby president obama will not be speaking at the conference this year but he'll be traveling to israel at the end of the month and one of the speakers here said it's going to be a real challenge for him to show that deep down and i quote him he really
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understands israel and the threats that it faces that gives an impression that the package is not too happy about the administration seemingly trying to play down the war talk in washington i'm going to check on. the lack of a widespread appetite for a strike on iran maybe only the latest in a series of reversals for a back according to political analyst robert naiman from just foreign policy. there is a lot of belief that the. israel lobby is losing the club. but they have had a series of reversals which about the election the reelection of obama was a reversal where the israeli got clearly need for years even with one bombing we really like to do that here then their candidate for secretary of state was susan rice she was our john kerry came in they didn't want john kerry so that was your second defeat and then he just said spectacular see the nomination confirmation and
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chuck it said terry incentive is just suffered a number of personal and women and they're losing khloponin and their agenda is getting more stream and more radical used to things are using these to be used to be very careful to try and project a bipartisan image of public democrats that increasingly openly advocating breaking the gender that a lot of democrats don't want to be a source of. well there certainly have been bumps along the road in diplomatic relations between the u.s. and israel but washington's emergency cuts now in effect financial ties could suffer as well and today we have our team want to know whether you believe that american aid to israel could be threatened by the sequester let's take a look at how the numbers have panned out we did put this poll for you on our web site as you can see almost half of you forty eight percent believe the israeli lobby is simply too influential and will block any cuts a third of you now hold the opposite view saying all foreign handouts will be were
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dues to regardless about ten percent as you can see there in the orange believe that the aid is simply too critical to israel's survival to be cut about the same number says that less money will be sent but only if the u.s. agrees to back israel in a potential strike against iran well first it's not too late to votes ahead over to out website at r.t. dot com to weigh in and have your say. well militias the explosive temper spoils of libya's business plans coming up the country's stop gas exports to italy after a fierce firefight between rival groups for the right to guard a plant. and a hearing into the accusations of tax evasion against the later russian attorneys fair game magnitsky begins on monday after a short break we report on the court case which is up and running despite the suspect that.
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will be. leads technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've gone to the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom are welcome to the big picture. more news today violent games flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day.
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it. welcome back you're watching our team well a pretrial hearing on the case of late russian lawyer sergei magnitsky is going ahead in a moscow court he was arrested five years ago on tax fraud charges and died a year into custody his death had led to the u.s. introducing travel sanctions against a russian officials but a move which of course caused an international scandal as well as souring of ties between moscow and washington are days of failure chefs reports. well the prosecution has justified its decision to resume the case against magnitsky which was stopped in two thousand and nine after his death. even despite that the man in question has been dead for more than three years because the case has been so much
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controversial and there is a certain need to find out where the mic needs had anything to do with the alleged embezzlement and tax evasion something he was accused of back in two thousand and eight when he was arrested the family of the deceased man said that they would not participate in the struggle believing that this trial is a violation of human rights but the prosecution insists that this is not a violation of the law despite that the man is dead they still want to find out whether those accusations against him had any substance behind them i'd like to remind our viewers that he was arrested in two thousand and eight accused of helping his supervisor william browder to evade taxes of more than one hundred million dollars later in two thousand and nine he died in custody allegedly because of mistreatment it's also worth mentioning that it was not the original magnitsky case which sparked lots of control over seeds was the fact of his death in detention which. sparked huge spats between washington and moscow with the u.s. congress passing the so-called magnitsky act which imposed
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a string of sanctions on the russian officials travel sanctions travel bans in particular those officials who are the u.s. believes to be associated with the death of sergei magnitsky the russians they do responded with sanctions on us human rights violations as it was described of their own including a ban off on the door of the russian children by u.s. citizens meanwhile the prime minister of russia the media has been saying on many occasions that this case the initial case of sergei magnitsky has nothing to do with politics it's a purely criminal economic case which has to be brought to the end. but the area has joined catalonia and scotland and maneuvering towards separatism many politicians there believe that germany's largest state is better off alone complaining that it is forced to hand over too much cash to its poor relations berlin will help far is bavaria ready to go r.t.s. peter oliver reports. germany unified twenty three years ago the
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cracks are showing at least one of its regions void. we want an independent state of bavaria this is an extraordinary aim there are twelve million of variance if independent we could be the ninth biggest nation in the e.u. with the fifth largest annual economic turnover i'm convinced we have the cultural historical and economic strength to survive the bavaria parties campaign literature certainly doesn't pull any punches when it comes to showing how they believe the rest of germany treats the sun state the group poses little threat to germany's political big guns it took just over one percent of the vote locally in two thousand and eight but their ideas are spreading increasingly influential circles over a limited shift to predict when i look at the map of europe and of history i see the boundaries are not made to last forever if they can be moved by free people
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czechoslovakia made with peaceful transition into two democratic states in two thousand and fourteen scotland will have a referendum if there's work being done in catalonia this movement is happening in europe today. the very a is booming when it comes to business it's home to some of the most recognizable and expensive brands in the world b.m.w. audi. and siemens have their base of operations here while munich is one of the world's major economic centers all contributing to an annual income of almost half a trillion euro a major factor which sticks in the craw of the variance is how about wealth is distributed throughout the federal states they're sick of paying for poor lin it hands over around three billion euros a year to the capital what impact would an independent bavaria have apartment daily lives of those living and working there to find out i've come here to the beautiful
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bavarian countryside to speak through a very keen on it dependants. yossef produces bio after he diversified from you know generates electricity from local phones definitely a case of where there's smoke there's money but it's where his tax cut goes that's concerning him more than the smell of stalkers. were completely and represented in germany on our own we would be a good size european state all we are now on the fun and seers of berlin and others . and there's more at stake than just money to one of europe's oldest states. since reunification there's been too much number of varian influence i want my kids to grow up feeling very culturally. no one learns the barbarian language in school we want to change that.
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when germany's you need to day celebrations get underway in the old some cases might find it here in the largest states there are. ways around. these are all of. the very. well from separatist sentiment in germany to protests gripping spain workers for spain's iberia airlines are set to ground more than one thousand flights as they plan a second round of strikes expected to last five days last week the farm said it wasn't giving up its plans to cut salaries and x. almost four thousand jobs that's how one side of the company it's estimated each day of striking could cost the airline around ten million euros. a massive car bomb has gone off outside a mosque in the pakistani city of karachi going at least forty five people injuring many more the police say one hundred kilograms of explosives were used ripping through several buildings and setting fire to others no group has yet claimed
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responsibility the shia population in the city is often targeted by sunni muslim groups. fifty people have protested in similar cities across the area to mark the national liberation day angry at the cost of living as well as political corruption and the former prime minister a boy go by recent was forced to quit last wednesday under public pressure and new elections are planned for early next month at the whirling demonstrations have grown into a backlash against the whole political system. in south africa a policeman caught on video dragging a man through the streets hanged up to a police van or a blue appear in court charged with his murder of the man from mozambique me can see in these videos right from head injuries and internal bleeding the taxi driver was arrested for parking his car illegally the pictures have sparked outrage in south after they were broadcast on television. well libya has been
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forced to halt gas exports to italy after a deadly gunfight between two armed groups in the northwest the shooting broke out after an argument between the militias over who should guard a major plant conflicts like this have become a regular site in post revolution libya. as a kawi from the pan african newswire thinks libyan stability has fallen victim to western energy interests. some nine billion cubic meters of natural gas from libya is export it to italy constitutes eleven percent of the national supply of natural gas to that country and now western europe and i think this is a reflection of the fact that there is this codependency between the former colonial power of italy and libya they are attempting in many ways to productize the natural gas as well as the oil industry inside of libya of course the majority of libyans are suffering immensely as
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a result of this post gadhafi political configuration and as we've seen the clashes between the various militia groups as well as the so-called army that is still simply out of the control of the general national congress is still on it could actually bring about stability. coming up we delve deeper into the mysterious death of a controversial figure who helped to shape the twentieth century joseph stalin. john kerry made his first major verbal gaffe as secretary of state by mixing the
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nonexistent country of courage to stand in one of his speeches of course it is funny when politicians misspeak george bush was pretty good at that but i can say that we all make mistakes when we speak trust me it is very easy to butcher the pronunciation of someplace on earth like course to low volar walla walla washington the thing is that he didn't just misspeak his speech was written correctly and if you look at his eyes as he said it he wasn't really looking at notes or something he was reading it off of a teleprompter right now i am reading off a teleprompter but i put every word there myself which is probably why john kerry is spelled with a q but my question is would kerry and prompter mr obama just read anything put in front of them to they even really know the realities of the tiriel they're reading in their speeches and who are deeply versed on some subject that you should need to read word for word from a teleprompter to give a speech just try writing some notes and speaking with your brain and maybe your heart like in the good old days but that's just my opinion.

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